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A fantastic Friday to you 🤞🏻 "Tynemouth and Cullercoats for the sunrise... I had my fingers crossed for seeing dolphins but no such luck." -Phil (3.06.26) 📍Tynemouth 📍Cullercoats
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"Do not miss the once in a lifetime chance to see the largest collection of 329 ‘Taihaku’ cherry blossom trees in the entire world all in their two week blossom window this spring at Alnwick Garden. Such a rare sight and no where else in the world has this beauty at such a scale but right here in Northumberland you can visit the cherry tree orchard and take it all in. The view is breathtaking and something you have to see with your own eyes. In 1926 Captain Collingwood Ingram was invited to Japan to give a lecture to the Sakurakai (cherry society). Whilst there he was shown a picture in an 18th Century book of a large, white cherry blossom that had become extinct. He recognised the same blossom on a cherry tree which had been imported to a Sussex garden in 1899 and was able to take cuttings from it and reintroduce the lost Taihaku to Japan in 1932.All of the Taihaku in cultivation today are off-spring of that cherry tree in Sussex!" -Emma.